Agnes by Tony Cochran for November 11, 2017

Agnes is a perfect candidate for using reverse psychology.

Now, if you find grandma a motorcycle, it’s a different story. She speaks from experience.

Kind of feel out the water first.

2nd panel perfectly describes a person I work with who happens to ride a motorcycle. He is noisy, loud and some of his friends could be of a criminal element, I never asked.

What if it just follows her home, Grandma?

I like the way Agnes’s mind works: “Noise… serious injury… criminal friends… cool!”

The allure of the forbidden fruit.

I’ve been riding for over 50 years. I don’t like loud motorcycles, either, and if you leave them stock, they aren’t. Many people push the legal limit by installing loud mufflers. WAY too loud mufflers. Yes, they can be dangerous. There is a learning curve, and most accidents happen to beginners who think they know it all, and get radical. You don’t really start getting safe until you have ridden 10,000 miles- just like cars. As for criminals, those people who cultivate the old Marlon Brando image of bad boy bikers are just as likely to be your neighborhood dentist or mechanic. 99% of bikers are no more criminal than you are, fudging figures on your taxes.